Posted on 08/25/2016 8:26:30 AM PDT by Brilliant
With no job, just 50 cents...having run out of acquaintances with whom to stay, 26-year-old Carlos is facing the grim reality that he may have to sleep on the street... Since he arrived to Miami... he has only managed to find a couple of temporary jobs...
"I have been eating one meal a day," Carlos said...
Like many Venezuelans, Carlos said he could no longer live in a country where the collapsed economy, soaring inflation, food shortages and rampant crime have erased the middle class life he and his family once had. In the past couple of years an increasing amount of desperate middle class Venezuelans have been fleeing to the U.S.
This is quite a different situation from that of the wealthy and business-savvy Venezuelans who immigrated to the U.S. starting in the early 2000s, after... Hugo Chavez rose to power... At the time, many Venezuelans owned businesses...and had second homes in South Florida.
That earlier wave of Venezuelans had so much money to invest that for years they have accounted for the majority of Florida home buyers from Latin America. These wealthier Venezuelans...had enough of a financial cushion and contacts in the U.S. to make a smooth transition.
But in the last couple of years, the situation in Venezuela has gone into economic freefall...
The wave of Venezuelans who have been coming recently are educated middle-class professionals who have the financial capability to obtain visas and travel to the U.S. But once here, they often lack contacts and the cash flow... Nonetheless, they are abandoning their jobs in Venezuela and at times leaving family behind...
In 2013, there were an estimated 248,000 people of Venezuelan origin living in the U.S... The asylum applications filed by Venezuelans so far during fiscal year 2016, has shot up by 168 percent...
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Fool, he should have just sneaked over the Mexican border.
If they have any brains, and they are legal, venezuelans should be another conservative immigrant group like the Cubans are (were?”
The entire article doesn’t mention once why this “man-caused” disaster happened in Venezuela. It’s just like a big storm landed on the country and things got really bad from then on.
Also weird is that there has been zero mention or concern from our government over the plight of Venezuelans or how to handle their refugee flood. Probably because they don’t kneel to Mecca five times a day.
Send them home.
Ironically, some folks like this become upstanding US citizens. Sometimes. That does not mean I sanction their illegal entry, if that is the case.
I have met and know some reasonable number of Venezuelans. I guess like anyone else they have their plusses and minuses. But 3 out 4 of the ones I know are freakin’ weird people.
These stupid articles never ever talk about the root cause of these collapsed
Go back to Venezuela and fight you coward.
“If they have any brains, and they are legal, venezuelans should be another conservative immigrant group like the Cubans are (were?”
Yeah, I remember years ago here on FR people constantly assuring us of how Mexican Catholics were ‘natural conservatives’. Send them back.
Now now, I gave no assurances. I said “if they had any brains” :)
and yeah, WTH happened with the legal hispanics?!?!
Well, they DID go for bush 60 or was it the other way around?
Odd that White catholics here vote MUCH more republican than hispanic catholics.
I dont know many fellow catholics who follow the rules all that well.
Me, I’m a saint :)
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